Advanced Structural Designs ACN 097 789 87 92 Vasey Cres CAMPBELL ACT 2612 Telephone 61612171 Facsimile 61612170 Email mal@structuraldesigns.com.au
How can
I locate reinforcement or stressing cables in a suspended slab, beam or wall in
We can normally locate the reinforcement and/or stressing in a concrete slab wall or beam by using a rebar covermeter. Our covermeter is a fourth generation micro covermeter which we believe to be the best on the market. As the name suggests the instrument can also used to confirm the concrete cover to reinforcement bars. The results are extremely reliable where the bars are widely spaced but once the bar spacing is less than say twice the depth you are reading to, the bar location is harder to ascertain and the cover readings are unreliable.
Bottom reinforcement can be located from the top of the slab to a maximum of 360 cover, but only in areas where there is no top reinforcement. If it is necessary to miss bottom by drilling from the top it is sometimes necessary to locate the reo on the bottom of the slab and transfer it to the top through a pilot hole.
If you do need reinforcement or prestress tendons located, or the cover to reinforcement bars checked and you are in the Canberra region call Advanced Structural Designs on 02 61612171 or Mal Wilson on 0412 968574.